Auto and home insurance giant State Farm has encouraged hundreds of employees to donate books promoting transgenderism to young children to their local schools and libraries, according to an email leaked by a whistleblower.
The email, obtained by nonprofit organization Consumersโ Research, states that the company partnered with transgender youth advocacy group The GenderCool Project in a campaign โto help diversify classroom, community center, and library bookshelvesโ with a collection of books centered on the โnational conversation about Being Transgender, Inclusive and Non-Binary.โ
โThe projectโs goal is to increase representation of LGBTQ+ books and support our communities in having challenging, important and empowering conversations with children Age 5+,โ Jose Soto, a corporate responsibility analyst for State Farm in Florida, wrote in the email dated Jan. 18.
One of the three books The GenderCool Project sought to promote is โA Kids Book About Being Transgender,โ which encourages readers as young as 5 to โshake off whatever confusion, skepticism, concern, or biases you may haveโ about โtransgender kids.โ The book suggests that a childโs feeling that he or she is of a different gender should be validated rather than challenged, arguing that feelings sometimes โwork more like our intuition or insightโ that โallow us to understand something without having to think about it.โ
โOne day I look up โboy who feels like girlโ and found stories of people who were just like me,โ the book reads. โThatโs the first time I heard the word transgender. I realized I wasnโt alone. The feeling I had been a girl finally made sense.โ
In the email, Soto asked for six State Farm insurance agents in Florida to volunteer to participate in the program by โreceiving these books in March, then donating them to their community by the end of April.โ
By Bill Pan